vertebral column

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The team found part of the dinosaur's skull, a complete vertebral column extending to the tail, and nearly intact forelimbs and hindlimbs, said CONICET.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Type 2 diabetes alters the behavior of discs in the vertebral column, making them stiffer, and also causes the discs to change shape earlier than normal.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024

They also used two-dimensional shape analysis techniques to examine variation in the spatial distribution of mineral structures along the vertebral column.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024

It is early days, but we have used gastruloids to study the process of somitogenesis, the process that generates the vertebral column and the muscles.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

This fish is remarkable for its 205negative characters; it can hardly be said to possess a brain, vertebral column, or heart, &c.; so that it was classed by the older naturalists amongst the worms.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles